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Privateer vs Null - What's the difference?

privateer | null |

As nouns the difference between privateer and null

is that privateer is (nautical) a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb privateer

is to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

privateer

English

Noun

(wikipedia privateer) (en noun)
  • (nautical) A privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.
  • An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship.
  • * Macaulay
  • Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
  • (motor racing) A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team.
  • See also

    * (motor racing) works team

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.
  • See also

    * letter of marque

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----